ATI Radeon X1950 XTX vs. Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2: Battle Revisited

Given that we have changed the way it is meant to be benchmarked at X-bit labs, we decided to have a look at performance difference between the models 7950 GX2 and the X1950 XTX now. We should keep in mind that along with the new settings we used the new drivers too.

Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2

As we see, Nvidia has managed to increase its performance in the game and activating more decent texture filtering did not drop the speed, unlike on ATI, where high-quality anisotropic filtering lowered performance by up to 12%.

Call of Duty 2

New settings also did not change graphics board’s positioning in Call of Duty 2 game, however, we may see that disabling texture filtering optimizations on Nvidia hardware in order to get rid of texture shimmering lowers performance by as much as 15%. At the same time, speed drop for ATI is not really substantial and its lagging behind is mainly conditioned by OpenGL drivers and some other factors.